What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps?
Defender for Cloud Apps includes additional capabilities that extend beyond the traditional cloud access security broker (CASB) scope to strengthen app posture and protect against malicious cloud apps. Ensure holistic coverage for your apps by combining SaaS security posture management, data loss prevention, app-to-app protection, and integrated threat protection.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
+87 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
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Feature Ratings
Cloud Discovery
Cloud Security Posture Management
Web Content Filtering
Policy Management
Threat Integration
Data Loss Prevention
User Behaviour Analytics
Access Control
Zero Trust
Record Management
Encryption/Tokenization
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Reviews
Lily A.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2022
Effective way to secure all our cloud applications
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps from other similar products?
Its ability to inspect data in authorized Apps is very much effective and helps to maintain zero trust with good analytics and quality reporting capabilities. Wed content filtering ability helps block unwanted content and suitable for policy management. Our organization depends to this great platform to control access to to all our Cloud applications and very effective tool to Cloud discovery and user behavior analytics.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Its ability to inspects data in authorized Apps is very much effective. Excellent access control functionality. Content filtering capability. Quality analytics and real-time reporting features. Policy management is made easy on this platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
No dislikes to this powerful CASB. It is very easy to get started with an intuitive user interface and quality technical support to any problem with immediate response and feedback. Excellent tool with effective Clouds discovery and threat integration capabilities.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Excellent tool that provides quick and easy security to all our Cloud Apps and better access control to this applications with quality analytics and reporting features. Zero trust to any Cloud Application and user behavioral analytics capabilities are very much helpful.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Lina M.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2022
Excellent defender for all our cloud services
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps from other similar products?
Extremely power tool and multimode CASB for complete visibility across all our cloud services and good control over data sharing and enables our admin to monitor and remediate unusual activity and block risky SaaS application and also configure polices on a granular level.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Secure protection to sensitive cloud data. Suspicious activity monitoring. Manage threats to compliance. Helps discover and manage shadow IT. Good reporting features. Compliant and protected data. Security when moving data to cloud.
What do you dislike most about this product?
No dislike for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps which is straightforward to use and an extra protector to all our cloud services providing secure protection to our sensitive data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Excellent Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is highly effective solution that provides an extra security layer to all our cloud SaaS applications, increasing visibility, and control to storage, feeling confident always when moving data to cloud, that sensitive data and information is safe and secure.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Martha R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2021
Excellent security control
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps from other similar products?
The use of this tool is beneficial, because it is a guarantee in all the applications we use, since it avoids and controls all existing risks through fully customized alarms, which allows us to maintain control of all activity within the cloud, as well As with its in-depth scan system, it immediately identifies records or clients that are not beneficial to your business.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is a good alternative to use this software, you will avoid threats, which can turn into misfortunes for your business, by filtering some unwanted information, since it will explore all the records of clients, applications and more in great detail.
What do you dislike most about this product?
With the great tools available, we can keep specific access to clients limited to maintain desired privacy.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
An indispensable tool to keep your business alert and free of threats, you will not have any risk of leaks to regret. All records will be well analyzed, so security will triple by keeping everything well controlled. I recommend this software in advance. The program is of great help to us, since we have been using it, it has managed to control all possible risks in the organization.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
